#oregon coast aquarium

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[snototter]

A pair of horned puffins (Fratercula corniculata) bond in Oregon Coast Aquarium, USA

by marlin harms

[spacefinch]

bbird

Enjoy this puffin picture I took at the Oregon Coast Aquarium when I was 12

[conifersncoasts]

It's be a crazy week and we're all exhausted. Here's a video of an otter napping.

[unofficial-sean]

Triakis semifasciata

[starkmartell]

Went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium and I wanted to pet EVERYTHING 🦈🦭🦦

[theorcabox]

Guess who?

This is a plushie of Keiko! He was the whale that portrayed the titular Willy in the first Free Willy movie (the sequels were all animatronic whales).

After the first film's release, an effort was made to rehabilitate and reintegrate Keiko back into Icelandic waters. During the first phase of his rehab, he was moved to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where a specially-made 850,000 gallon chilled seawater tank was waiting for him.

He was a big draw at the aquarium, so naturally he got some merch. I found this guy in Oregon at a small thrift shop when I visited with my family in 2009. As soon as I saw his 3 embroidered freckles, I knew who he was!

Bought secondhand, Cascade Toy

[castletown-cafe]

I wasn’t able to go live much last week - especially not on Friday, because I was on a coastal trip from Wednesday through Saturday. Had to stop by the Oregon Coast Aquarium for the ACNH Aquarium Tour! So many great photo ops featuring character standees, signs where Blathers talks about some of the aquarium’s animals that are also featured in-game, and of course, I took so many pics of the animals themselves. Many, many pics….too many. My art is buried lol. Worth it!

Also found Gulliver washed up on beach rocks 😂

[kadzhi]

[bakeddonutt]

One of the coolest dudes I’ve ever seen 🥺

[jenefox]

it's nemo 😭

[jazmatazzzzzz]

🪼ˑ༄ؘ ۪۪۫۫ ▹ ☆ 🌀 digital jellies 🌀 ☆ ◃ ۪۪۫۫ ༄ؘ ˑ🪼

[wh3atley-personality-core]

Are you like the world's biggest camera, with that giant eyeball? Or are you a telescope?

"I'm actually the world's most broken sensor! As I said before, I have a camera but I don't exactly use it to see, only to take photos, altough they're not really good quality either, and well, it really doesn't help the fact that my optic is currently broken so my current vision is more or less like this..."

"Dunno why that gold fish appears whenever I speak to the other golden fish..."

[stopdoopyphotos]

Rooster’s Rocks in Newport oregon

[unofficial-sean]

Beringraja binoculata

[spaciousreasoning]

A Visit to the Coast Aquarium

When we went to Creswell Bakery on Wednesday to pick up another loaf of their excellent sourdough bread, we also bought a book there about day trips around Oregon, planning to use it to feed our adventures.

So on Thursday, we ventured to Newport and checked out the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Since opening in 1992, the Oregon Coast Aquarium has been a premier attraction on Oregon’s central coast and an enduring advocate for the health of our ocean. For more than three decades this non-profit organization has supported marine wildlife and fostered environmental stewardship through its education programs, community partnerships, and rehabilitation efforts.

Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, the Oregon Coast Aquarium is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 aquariums in the U.S., providing visitors with opportunities to connect with 15,000 animals spanning 300 different species.

Since its opening, the Aquarium has connected guests with the Oregon coast, ultimately inspiring ocean conservation through its dedication to Oregon’s native wildlife. Consistently ranked within the top 10 aquariums in the country, the Aquarium fosters environmental stewardship and acts as an essential resource of conservation education while providing care to both the animals residing in its habitats and wildlife in need of rescue and rehabilitation.

Exhibits at the Oregon Coast Aquarium are known internationally for the quality of their construction, maintenance and interpretation. They range from those you can touch and hear to those you can see and explore. By modeling its habitats to mirror the natural environments found along Oregon’s shores, the Oregon Coast Aquarium strives to provide its animals with quality lives, and its visitors with quality experiences.

Indoor galleries allow you to peer into the wonders of the underwater world, complete with sea stars, jellies, and many other fish and invertebrates. They offer the underwater ballets of seals, sea lions, and sea otters. The Passages of the Deep, which features an underwater tunnel that snakes through three ocean habitats, displays near 360-degree views of wolf eels, rockfishes, sturgeon, skates, bat rays and a variety of sharks. Visitors are surrounded by seabirds in the outdoor aviary, the largest of its kind in North America, featuring deep pools and rocky cliff sides that mimic Oregon’s coastline.

On the way to Newport and back we managed to slip in visits to two more covered bridges. Just off OR 20 between Corvallis and the coast we found the Chitwood Bridge, constructed in 1926, to get people across the Yaquina River. Returning via OR 34 we stopped to check out the Hayden Bridge, originally built in 1918 and reconstructed in 1945. It allows the residents of the small community of Alsea to cross the Alsea River.